Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Circle of Life
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.05.2009
Mercy Heights Medical Center, New York. Peter's telling someone that a patient is diabetic, until Nathan interrupts him. Nathan's annoyed Peter hasn't returned his phone calls, but Peter just says he's been busy. It seems like the show dropped the whole "Peter's a lone reed" storyline and is now making him seem all happy with Nathan, but just busy. Okay, show. I'll follow you in this direction, because I like Peter and Nathan together, even if it really is Peter and Sylar-as-Nathan. So, Peter asks Nathan if it can wait, but Nathan needs five minutes now. Screw the diabetic patients, because Peter heads to a locker room with Nathan. They refrain from making out, and instead Nathan delights Peter by showing him how he can move objects with his mind. He picks up a sugar jar, which Peter then takes and looks at in awe, as if it was the sugar that had the power. Peter's excited about this, and Nathan says he's like a Swiss Army Knife of superpowers now, with a new power every day. Peter guesses that runs in the family. Then Nathan tells Peter that he's seeing things, memories, but they aren't his. He says he'll touch something and see its history. Peter says he's read about this; it's called psychometrics, which he says has something to do with seeing the history of an object -- where it's been, what it's experienced. Yeah, I don't think that's what psychometrics actually means. Peter asks if Nathan remembers Kelly Houston. Peter asks if Nathan means before or after she ran away and broke Nathan's heart, but Nathan says he doesn't think she ran away. He says he's seeing images of him and her in a pool, and she's dead. He thinks, if what he's seeing is real, that someone killed her. Peter tells him he has to find out the truth, which means going by her old house, where her mother, Millie, still lives. Peter offers to go with him, but Nathan says it's his mess to clean up. Wait, is that Nathan or Sylar in there? It must be Sylar, because Nathan's never been that noble.
Over cereal, HRG asks Claire why she's there. She unconvincingly wonders if a daughter can't just drop in on her father unannounced. She admits she's worried about him, since he's all alone, and is living off cereal and Japanese takeout. He concedes the point, and says he'll order Italian tonight. Heh. She wonders about a job, but he says his particular skills aren't all that marketable. She says that's not true, since he was middle management at Primatech Paper for years. He says that job consisted of lying to his family, bagging and tagging, etc. She says, "At least you're a people person." Then she finds a job for lumber salesman, which he's perfect for. He's like, "You do realize that's a cover, right?" She wants to pretend she's interviewing him for the job, and asks what his greatest strength as a salesman is. He responds seriously, "If they don't buy something, I can always just shoot them." Neither of them laugh, but I thought it was amusing.